Dave Lara reflects on being a gay man in the Navy during the Vietnam War | The Moth

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When Dave Lara was 17, he enlisted in the United States Navy. Despite attitudes of the time, he found a group of fellow gay servicemen he could confide in as the Vietnam War raged on around them.

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